Scilly Isles are doing the same – again:
L5598/20
SCILLY ISLES/ST MARYS ATS AND AD OPERATING HOURS WILL VARY AT
SHORT NOTICE TO ACCOMODATE SCHEDULED OPERATOR FLIGHTS ONLY AND
REMAINS STRICTLY PPR. AD REMAINS AVBL TO SAR, EMERGENCY AND MIL
FLIGHTS AT ALL TIMES. LOCAL BASED OUT OF HOURS INDEMNITIES ARE IN
FORCE
FROM: 02 DEC 2020 22:24 TO: 31 DEC 2020 17:30
Yes, but how many people live on the Scilly isles and Guernsey?
Might that not have a wee bit to do with it too?
The argument I heard made on Alderney (pop. 1800 – “1800 drunks clinging to a rock” is what Guernsey residents refer to it as, most unkindly, but they don’t like funding its deficit) during my last visit, 17th March, was that there are so many old people there that the virus would kill lots of them if it got there. So Alderney (and Guernsey) never re-opened after the ~ 20th March total closure. They have a completely free life there, with no precautions AFAIK.
The Scilly Isles re-opened early July. It has a similar population size to Alderney; not sure about the age profile. Frankly I would not fly there now because nowadays they don’t allow GA to park on tarmac even if they could, and the grass is marginal (for the TB20) even in dry weather. I saw a PC12 on grass so the policy seems to have no exceptions, but a PC12 has more power than I have to pull itself out of a hole 
However the Scilly Isles “are in England” so it is interesting what legal powers they have to shut down like this. I mean… Brighton council would not be able to put roadblocks on all roads going into Brighton, to create a “CV19-free zone” (actually Brighton is full of anti-vaxxers who truly believe it is a big conspiracy with 5G used to read the personal data stored in the vaccine nanoparticles, but you get my drift ) But clearly the Scillies can, and do just close the place up.
FYI, french islands (Belle-ile, Ile d’Yeu etc…) did the same in March.
RobertL18C wrote:
IOM, Taiwan ROC, NZ, Guernsey seem to have used their island status to their advantage in managing the pandemic.
Looking a UK corridor list for quarantine exemption, yes load of islands have that covid19 safe status (works on the biggest ones being Australia, Antaractica and New Zeland), but how many are open for UK visitors with no quarantine on arrival? a friend of mine went to Barbados end of Oct, he is now on his 2nd month there
I wonder why such exemption is not implemented for Oussant, Corsica, Sardinia, Sicily, Ile’Yeu
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-travel-corridors
Corridor list
Anguilla
Antigua and Barbuda
Aruba (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Australia
the Azores
Bahrain
Barbados
Bermuda
Bhutan (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Bonaire/St Eustatius/Saba (arrivals before 4am 21 November need to self-isolate)
British Antarctic Territory
British Indian Ocean Territory
British Virgin Islands
Brunei
Cambodia
the Canary Islands
Cayman Islands
the Channel Islands
Chile
Cuba
Dominica
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Federated States of Micronesia (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Fiji
Finland
Gibraltar
Greek islands: Corfu, Crete, Kos, Rhodes, Zakynthos
Greenland
Grenada
Hong Kong
Iceland
Ireland
the Isle of Man
Israel and Jerusalem (arrivals before 4am 21 November need to self-isolate) (read about the UK position on Jerusalem)
Japan
Kiribati (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Laos
Macao (Macau)
Madeira
Malaysia
Maldives
Mauritius
Mongolia (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Montserrat
Namibia (arrivals before 4am 21 November need to self-isolate)
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Northern Mariana Islands (arrivals before 4am 21 November need to self-isolate)
Norway
Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands
Qatar
Rwanda (arrivals before 4am 21 November need to self-isolate)
Samoa (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Seychelles
Singapore
Solomon Islands (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
South Korea
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
Sri Lanka (arrivals before 4am 21 November need to self-isolate)
St Barthélemy
St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
St Kitts and Nevis
St Lucia
St Pierre and Miquelon
St Vincent and the Grenadines
Taiwan
Thailand
Timor-Leste (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Tonga (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Turks and Caicos Islands
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay (arrivals before 4am 21 November need to self-isolate)
US Virgin Islands (arrivals before 4am 21 November need to self-isolate)
Vanuatu (arrivals before 4am 28 November need to self-isolate)
Vietnam
That’s hilarious
Peter wrote:
That’s hilarious
Yeah….Except it really isnt…
It just shows the absurdity of the current situation in many European countries right now and how completely daft the new rules/laws are.
Yes; this is actually not really new, because if you take an unapproved drug you will lose your medical. Well, if you tell them 
The funny Q is what happens if an FAA medical holder in the UK takes the Pfizer vaccine which is not approved in the US by the FDA (and may never be, since the US is probably not buying any of it)
